{"id":124580,"date":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nursingstudybay.com\/2023\/02\/14\/discussion-socw-6090-psychopathology-and-diagnosis-for-social-work-practice-walden-university\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","slug":"discussion-socw-6090-psychopathology-and-diagnosis-for-social-work-practice-walden-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyproessays.com\/help\/discussion-socw-6090-psychopathology-and-diagnosis-for-social-work-practice-walden-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion | SOCW 6090 &#8211; Psychopathology and Diagnosis for Social Work Practice | Walden University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Week 11 6090&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personality Disorders&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readings<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Morrison, J. (2014) Diagnosis made easier: Principles and techniques for mental health clinicians (2nd ed.), New York, NY: Guilford Press.<\/p>\n<p>o Chapter 16, \u201cDiagnosing Personality and Relationship Problems\u201d (pp. 251\u2013270)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 American Psychiatric Association. (2013m). Personality disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176\/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm18<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cicchetti, D. (2014). Illustrative developmental psychopathology perspectives on precursors and pathways to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 personality &nbsp;&nbsp;disorder: Commentary on the special issue. <em>Journal of Personality &nbsp;&nbsp;Disorders<\/em>, <em>28<\/em>(1), 172\u2013179. doi:10.1521\/pedi.2014.28.1.172&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 Ferguson, A. &nbsp;&nbsp;(2016). Borderline personality disorder and access to services: A crucial &nbsp;&nbsp;social justice issue. <em>Australian Social Work, 69<\/em>(2), 206\u2013214. &nbsp;&nbsp;doi:10.1080\/0312407X.2015.1054296&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 <strong>Document: <\/strong>The &nbsp;&nbsp;Case of Cathy (PDF)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Case of Cathy<\/p>\n<p>Cathy is a &nbsp;&nbsp;32-year-old, divorced, heterosexual African American female. She came to her &nbsp;&nbsp;first initial intake session with complaints of depression with passive &nbsp;&nbsp;suicidal thoughts, anxiousness, and trouble sleeping. She presented as &nbsp;&nbsp;casually groomed, coherent, and goal directed. Cathy\u2019s primary concern was &nbsp;&nbsp;the added stress in helping her mother with her illness. Cathy reports a &nbsp;&nbsp;history of threatening suicide since she was a teenager. Her family thought &nbsp;&nbsp;she was just trying to get attention. Cathy states that she was suicidal &nbsp;&nbsp;because she always felt empty, and sometimes she just felt so overwhelmed &nbsp;&nbsp;that she didn\u2019t know how else to cope with these emotions. She denies any &nbsp;&nbsp;suicide attempts. The following is a summary of the initial appointment and &nbsp;&nbsp;assessment for Cathy. Cathy is the oldest of four children (two brothers and &nbsp;&nbsp;one sister), all of whom are married and live in the same community. Cathy &nbsp;&nbsp;believes she is close with all her siblings but sometimes gets so frustrated &nbsp;&nbsp;with them she \u201ccan\u2019t stand them\u201d. Cathy works in a doctor\u2019s office and lives &nbsp;&nbsp;in a one-bedroom apartment where she often \u201cisolates.\u201d She is the primary &nbsp;&nbsp;caretaker of her mother, who was involved in a car accident 20 years ago and &nbsp;&nbsp;was left a quadriplegic. Cathy goes to her home daily to help with her &nbsp;&nbsp;personal hygiene. Cathy has an arrest history and was incarcerated for 3 &nbsp;&nbsp;years for drug-related charges. She was charged with possession and intent to &nbsp;&nbsp;distribute. Cathy stated that at that time she was addicted to heroin and &nbsp;&nbsp;using daily. Cathy reports that she began using marijuana at 14 years old. As &nbsp;&nbsp;she entered high school she began experimenting with many different kinds of &nbsp;&nbsp;drugs. Her heroin use began when she was 21 years old. When she completed her &nbsp;&nbsp;prison sentence, she was paroled and mandated to attend a 1-year outpatient &nbsp;&nbsp;drug treatment program, which she successfully completed. Cathy reported that &nbsp;&nbsp;she returned to using cocaine 2 years ago, stating that it helps her do her &nbsp;&nbsp;fast-paced job better and it keeps her energy up so she can help her mother &nbsp;&nbsp;early in the morning and late at night. Cathy believes the cocaine use is &nbsp;&nbsp;just an added stress reliever as well as \u201cretail\u201d therapy. She reports &nbsp;&nbsp;shopping has been a great relief from the time she was working full time. She &nbsp;&nbsp;said no one in her family or at her job knows that she has been doing drugs. &nbsp;&nbsp;Cathy also takes numerous medications prescribed to her by her primary care &nbsp;&nbsp;doctor, including an antidepressant and pain medication. As we discussed her &nbsp;&nbsp;presenting concerns, multiple issues came up. Cathy shared her feelings about &nbsp;&nbsp;being her mother\u2019s primary caretaker, stating, \u201cI love my mom, but everyone &nbsp;&nbsp;expects me to care for her. It feels so unfair, but it\u2019s because I am not &nbsp;&nbsp;married and don\u2019t have any children, this is when I really hate my siblings.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;Cathy reports never feeling as important as her siblings and believes that is &nbsp;&nbsp;why she is the only one helping her mom now. She believes they look at her &nbsp;&nbsp;differently since she has a criminal history. She said her father does not help &nbsp;&nbsp;with the care of her mother and that all he does is \u201chang out.\u201d She reported &nbsp;&nbsp;feeling increasingly frustrated with this added responsibility and resentful &nbsp;&nbsp;that her father and siblings have relegated this job to her. She sometimes &nbsp;&nbsp;resents her mother for her being in this situation. She was dysphoric as she &nbsp;&nbsp;shared this content and described being \u201cstuck.\u201d She described her father as &nbsp;&nbsp;a \u201cmanipulative loser.\u201d She also stated that she recently allowed one of her &nbsp;&nbsp;brother\u2019s friends to move in with her as a favor because he was homeless and &nbsp;&nbsp;had nowhere to go. She said she believed he was a sweet person who just has &nbsp;&nbsp;had a hard time in life, and she wanted to help him. She had been supporting &nbsp;&nbsp;him financially over the last month, and was concerned because it appears that &nbsp;&nbsp;he has not made any effort to get a job. She feared she made a mistake &nbsp;&nbsp;allowing him into her home and has thrown him out several times. Cathy then &nbsp;&nbsp;felt bad and allowed him back in. Cathy stated that this has been a pattern &nbsp;&nbsp;in her relationships her entire life. When she first meets someone, she &nbsp;&nbsp;idolizes them and believes that they can do nothing wrong, then something &nbsp;&nbsp;always happens and they end up hurting her. Cathy said that she and this new &nbsp;&nbsp;roommate had sex one time when he first moved in. She said they both got very &nbsp;&nbsp;intoxicated, and she is not sure exactly what happened, but she blacked out &nbsp;&nbsp;and found him in her bed, undressed. She then told him she had herpes, and he &nbsp;&nbsp;responded that it had been a \u201cmistake\u201d and that he did not want to have sex &nbsp;&nbsp;with her again because he was afraid of getting infected. Cathy became angry &nbsp;&nbsp;with him at this. Cathy explained that her promiscuity through her twenties &nbsp;&nbsp;had resulted in this lifelong disease, and she expressed anger and resentment &nbsp;&nbsp;toward some men she had sex with. She said even though the herpes is &nbsp;&nbsp;controlled with medication, she feels embarrassed and fears she will never &nbsp;&nbsp;have another healthy relationship. She said she feels used, slighted, and &nbsp;&nbsp;humiliated by the man now living in her home. Cathy then shared that when she &nbsp;&nbsp;was 12 years old her father molested her. She stated that she tried to forget &nbsp;&nbsp;what happened to her, but this recent incident with her new roommate brought &nbsp;&nbsp;it up again. Cathy complained of recent nightmares related to the abuse and &nbsp;&nbsp;exaggerated startle reactions to other people\u2019s movements. Adapted from: &nbsp;&nbsp;Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., &amp; Brocksen, S. (2013). Social work case &nbsp;&nbsp;studies: Concentration year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate Publishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 Laureate &nbsp;&nbsp;Education (Producer). (2018e). <em>Psychopathology and diagnosis for social &nbsp;&nbsp;work practice podcast: Personality disorders <\/em>[Audio podcast]. Baltimore, &nbsp;&nbsp;MD: Author.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 Osmosis. &nbsp;&nbsp;(2016a, August 15). <em>Cluster A personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, &nbsp;&nbsp;schizotypal)\u2014causes &amp; symptoms <\/em>[Video file]. Retrieved from &nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/youtu.be\/9BqaHfJI1Z4&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 Osmosis. &nbsp;&nbsp;(2016b, August 17). <em>Cluster B personality disorders (antisocial, &nbsp;&nbsp;borderline, histrionic, narcissistic) <\/em>[Video file]. Retrieved from &nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/youtu.be\/2XZ9cLJd5Gc&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 Osmosis. &nbsp;&nbsp;(2016c, August 24). <em>Cluster C personality disorders (avoidant, &nbsp;&nbsp;obsessive-compulsive, dependent) <\/em>[Video file]. Retrieved from &nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/youtu.be\/_n2YUhNg41M&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personality disorders can &nbsp;&nbsp;arise through trauma, and they often carry added stigma. In this Discussion, &nbsp;&nbsp;you analyze a case study focused on a personality disorder while also &nbsp;&nbsp;reflecting on how power, privilege, and stigma affect such diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To prepare:<\/strong> Review \u201cThe Case of &nbsp;&nbsp;Cathy\u201d and consider your differential diagnostic process for her. Be sure to &nbsp;&nbsp;consider any past diagnoses and what influence they might have on her current &nbsp;&nbsp;diagnosis and needs. Finally, return to the Week 1 Discussion topic (sample nursing essay examples by the best nursing assignment writing service) of stigma &nbsp;&nbsp;and reflect on stigma related to personality disorders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personality Disorders<\/p>\n<p>Post by Day 4 a 300- to 500-word response in which you address the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Provide the full DSM-5 diagnosis. Remember, a full diagnosis should include the name of the disorder, ICD-10-CM code, specifiers, severity, and the Z codes (other conditions that may need clinical attention). Keep in mind a diagnosis covers the most recent 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Explain the diagnosis by matching the symptoms identified in the case to the specific criteria for the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Support your decision by identifying the symptoms which meet specific criteria for each diagnosis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Identify any close differentials and why they were eliminated. Concisely support your decisions with the case materials and readings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Explain how diagnosing a client with a personality disorder may affect their treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &nbsp;Analyze how power and privilege may influence who is labeled with a personality disorder and which types of personality disorders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Identify how trauma affects the case, either precipitating the diagnosis and\/or resulting from related symptoms or treatment of diagnosis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 11 6090&nbsp; Personality Disorders&nbsp; Readings \u2022 Morrison, J. 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